The Measurable Way to Meet GU Mentoring Requirements

Mentoring has a big impact. That’s why CFR 694.21 now says that new Gear Up "grantees must provide comprehensive mentoring..." But starting such a program, managing it, and keeping it going can take a lot of time. That’s why our nonprofit worked with GU families and educators to create a new, safe, simple online tool that makes mentoring manageable—and measurable, to support data-driven decision making. You can even customize it as a social support system for students, as a space to engage parents, or as a professional development community for your staff. EduGuide is now taking a limited number of dollar-for-dollar, in-kind matching partners. Partners get:

1. Impact. Multiply the number of contact hours your team can deliver to hard-to-reach families with simple online tools.
2. Matching. Dollar for dollar, in-kind, value-added programming stretches your budget further.
3. Results. Monitor progress data on your custom goals.
4. Safeguards. Keep track of what mentors are saying and doing.
5. Resources. Use more than 1,000 mentoring articles, goals, and guides.
6. Relationships. Stay connected to students even after they move, change schools, or go to college.
7. Technical Assistance. Get training, advice, and best practice materials from other access and success mentoring programs.

Space for new programs is limited. To learn how you can be approved to include the Mentoring Community in your program, please email Bryan or call him at 1-800-832-2464. About EduGuide is a national award-winning nonprofit, specializing in equipping hundreds of programs to mentor first generation families to take measurable steps that predict higher achievement. EduGuide developed the Mentoring Community with GU families for GU families, with user testing in homes, schools, and usability labs. Hundreds of GU program staff also participated in preliminary research as part of EduGuide's first-of-its-kind, national study of how to reach first generation families in the digital age.